Compress WebP images online

Both lossy and lossless in one format

WebP is unusual in supporting two genuinely different compression schemes. Lossy WebP works like a modern JPEG, discarding detail the eye misses, and suits photographs and complex artwork. Lossless WebP works like a better PNG, preserving exact pixels for graphics and screenshots — usually in fewer bytes than PNG itself.

Tinify picks the machinery to match your chosen mode: Balanced and Best quality use lossy encoding, and Lossless mode — offered for WebP, PNG, AVIF, and GIF — keeps every pixel intact.

Recompressing existing WebP files

Files exported by CMS plugins, screenshot tools, or older encoders often use quick settings that leave real savings behind. A dedicated pass at Balanced quality frequently trims them further with no visible change at normal display sizes.

If a file is already near its floor, the honest outcome is no change: when compression would grow a WebP, Tinify returns the original and marks it not optimized rather than shipping a larger file.

Transparency and animation notes

WebP supports alpha transparency in both lossy and lossless modes, so overlays and product cutouts keep clean edges at a fraction of PNG's size. Animated WebP exists as well; for animation workflows, compare results against the GIF tooling and pick whichever serves your players and platforms.

Fitting WebP into a delivery pipeline

Resize first, compress second, and keep the original master somewhere safe — results here expire after two hours by design. For maximum savings on photographic content, consider AVIF with WebP as the fallback in a picture element; for broad simplicity, WebP alone now covers every modern browser.

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